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Psalms 18:35
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You have given me your shield of victory. Your right hand supports me; your help has made me great.
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
You have also given me the shield of your salvation; And your right hand has held me up, And your response made me great.
You protect me with your saving shield. You support me with your right hand. You have stooped to make me great.
You give me your protective shield; your right hand supports me; your willingness to help enables me to prevail.
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up and thy gentleness hath made me great.
You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, And Your right hand upholds and sustains me; Your gentleness [Your gracious response when I pray] makes me great.
You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great.
Which techith myn hondis to batel; and thou hast set myn armys as a brasun bouwe.
You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.
You alone are my shield. Your right hand supports me, and by coming to help me, you have made me famous.
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation; And thy right hand hath holden me up, And thy gentleness hath made me great.
You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.
He trains my hands for war until my arms can bend a bow of bronze;
And thou didst give me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand held me up; and thy condescending gentleness hath made me great.
Lord, you have given me your shield to protect me. You support me with your right hand. It is your help that has made me great.
Who traineth my hands for war, so that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
Thou hast also giuen me the shield of thy saluation: and thy right hand hath holden me vp, and thy gentlenesse hath made me great.
You have also given me the covering that saves me. Your right hand holds me up. And Your care has made me great.
You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand has supported me; your help has made me great.
Thou hast also giuen me the shield of thy saluation, and thy right hand hath stayed me, and thy louing kindenes hath caused me to increase.
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation; and thy right hand hath held me up; and thy discipline hath made me great.
O Lord , you protect me and save me; your care has made me great, and your power has kept me safe.
Thus didst thou grant me, as a shield, thy salvation, - and, thy right hand, sustained me, and, thy condescension, made me great.
(17-36) And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.
Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand supported me, and thy help made me great.
Thou hast geuen me the shielde of thy saluation: thy ryght hande also hath helde me vp, and through thy great gentlenesse I haue increased.
And thou hast made me secure in my salvation: and thy right hand has helped me, and thy correction has upheld me to the end; yea, thy correction itself shall instruct me.
You have given me the shield of your salvation;your right hand upholds me,and your humility exalts me.
You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
You also gave me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your humility made me great.
You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; and Your right hand holds me up; and Your condescension has made me great.
And Thou givest to me the shield of Thy salvation, And Thy right hand doth support me, And Thy lowliness maketh me great.
Thou hast geue me the defence of thy health, thy right hande vpholdeth me, and thy louynge correccion maketh me greate.
You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, And Your right hand upholds me; And Your gentleness makes me great.
You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has made me great.
You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, And Your right hand upholds me; And Your gentleness makes me great.
You have also given me the shield of Your salvation,And Your right hand upholds me;And Your gentleness makes me great.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shield: Psalms 5:12, Psalms 28:7, Deuteronomy 33:29, 2 Samuel 22:36
right: Psalms 17:7, Psalms 45:3
gentleness: or, with thy meekness thou hast multiplied me, Psalms 45:4, Isaiah 40:11, Isaiah 22:3, 2 Corinthians 10:1, Galatians 5:22, Galatians 5:23, James 3:17, James 3:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 24:35 - the Lord Genesis 32:10 - my staff Joshua 3:7 - magnify thee 2 Chronicles 26:7 - God helped Esther 10:2 - advanced him Psalms 20:6 - with Psalms 30:7 - by thy Psalms 60:5 - save Psalms 63:8 - thy Psalms 119:65 - dealt well Psalms 138:7 - and thy right Psalms 140:7 - the strength
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation,.... Meaning either temporal salvation, which was a shield to him when he had no outward one, as when he fought with Goliath; and was what preserved him in all his battles at other times: or spiritual salvation, which is of the Lord, of his contriving, effecting:, and applying, and in which his glory is concerned; interest in which is a free gift of his, as are the knowledge, application, and possession of it; and this is as a shield, which saves from sin, from all sin, and the damning power of it; keeps off the curses of the law, secures from wrath to come, and repels Satan's temptations; the words may be applied to Christ, who, though he was not saved from dying, yet was preserved in the day of salvation, and was not suffered to see corruption in the grave, and was quickly delivered from the power and dominion of it;
and thy right hand hath holden me up; Christ may be said to be the right hand of God, being as dear to him as his right hand; and being exalted at it; and because by him he communicates all good things to his people, and with him upholds and sustains them; or else it designs the mighty power of God, which is often signified by it,
Psalms 20:6; and may be understood of the sustentation of David, both in a providential way, with respect to his being, the preservation of it, the supplies of life, and support in times of trouble and distress; and in a spiritual sense, maintaining the principle of grace in him, furnishing him with fresh supplies of grace, and bearing him up under and through every temptation and exercise; so upholding him that he stood firm in the true grace of God, in the exercise of it implanted, and in the doctrine of grace, so as to go forward in the ways of God, and follow hard after him, and so as not to fall and utterly perish; and which is true of all the saints; see
Psalms 63:8. The words may be interpreted of Christ, who, as man and Mediator, as God's righteous servant, was upheld by him, so that he failed not, nor was he discouraged; the hand of the Lord was established with him, and his arm also strengthened him, Isaiah 42:1; this clause is not in 2 Samuel 22:36;
and thy gentleness hath made me great; David was very mean and low by his birth and occupation, and while persecuted by Saul; but God of his grace and goodness, of his sovereign good will and pleasure, raised him to an high estate, set him on the throne of Israel, and gave him honour among and above the kings of the earth; so Kimchi interprets the word for "gentleness" by "goodness" or "merciful" kindness; R. Jonah by "providence"; and R. Isaac explains it "thy help [and] good will"; and all shows that his greatness was not owing to his merits, but to the providential goodness of God; and his special grace and mercy in Christ Jesus made him still greater, even a child of God, an heir of God, a joint heir with Christ, a King and a Priest unto God; gave him a right unto and a meetness for a crown of glory, an everlasting kingdom, an eternal inheritance, as it does all the saints. The words may be rendered, "thy humility hath made me great" p; which may be understood either of God's humbling himself to look upon him in his low estate, and to raise him to such honour and dignity as he did, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; see Psalms 113:6; or of the humility which he had in himself from God, as Aben Ezra interprets it; of which grace God is the author; it is a fruit of the Spirit; which he takes great notice of, gives more grace to them that have it, and exalts them, as he did David, who was mean and low in his own eyes. The Septuagint, and those versions which follow that, render it "thy discipline" or "correction": and so may design the gentleness and lenity of God in chastising his people, which is always in measure and in judgment, and for their good; whereby he increases grace in them, and trains them up for, and brings them to his kingdom and glory. The Chaldee paraphrase is, "by thy word thou hast increased me"; it may not be improperly interpreted of Christ, who was very low in his estate of humiliation on earth, but is now highly exalted, and crowned with glory and honour; who first endured great sufferings, and then entered into his glory.
p ענותך "mansuetudo tua", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Gejerus; "thy meekness", Ainsworth; ענוה "sumitur pro humilitate seu mansuetudine", Zeph. ii. 3. Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvations - Thou hast saved me as with a shield; thou hast thrown thy shield before me in times of danger. See the note at Psalms 5:12.
And thy right hand hath holden me up - Thou hast sustained me when in danger of failing, as if thou hadst upheld me with thine own hand.
And thy gentleness hath made me great - Margin, “or, with thy meekness thou hast multiplied me.” The word here rendered gentleness, evidently means here favor, goodness, kindness. It commonly means humility, modesty, as applied to men; as applied to God, it means mildness, clemency, favor. The idea is, that God had dealt with him in gentleness, kindness, clemency, and that to this fact alone he owed all his prosperity and success in life. It was not by any claim which he had on God; it was by no worth of his own; it was by no native strength or valor that he had been thus exalted, but it was wholly because God had dealt kindly with him, or had showed him favor. So all our success in life is to be traced to the favor - the kindness - of God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 18:35. The shield of thy salvation — In all battles and dangers God defended him. He was constantly safe because he possessed the salvation of God. Everywhere God protected him. Thy gentleness, ענותך anvathecha, thy meekness or humility. Thou hast enabled me to bear and forbear; to behave with courage in adversity, and with humility in prosperity; and thus I am become great. By these means thou hast multiplied me. The Vulgate reads, Disciplina tua ipsa me docebit; "And thy discipline itself shall teach me." In this sense it was understood by most of the versions. The old Psalter paraphrases thus: Thi chastying suffers me noght to erre fra the end to com.
